Experience with Fast Load Shedding Using IEC 61850 Goose: Copyright Material IEEE, Paper No. PCIC-2018-41

Load shedding is critical for facilities that have cogeneration capability to prevent collapse of the cogeneration assets. Fast load shedding requires sub-cycle speed to manage thousands of distributed loads within a facility. This paper describes the experience of applying such a fast load shedding scheme across a wide array of relays provided by various vendors and potentially a large quantity. The system described in this paper utilizes a proven fast load shed system and makes it easy to configure larger and more complex load shed schemes. The paper proposes the architecture of a central fast load shed controller interfaced with local feeder protection relays over IEC 61850 GOOSE and additional fast load shed aggregators if total GOOSE is more than 64. One of the challenges with a large-scale load shed scheme deployment is the configuration of devices, and especially the IEC 61850 GOOSE engineering process which may add further complexity. This paper proposes a simple to configure IEC 61850 GOOSE scheme with high-speed performance requirements. Lessons learned from the fast load shed deployment are also discussed.